Coll

Stace Constantinou's icon

I'm trying to get 3000 pieces of data into a single Coll. (Whilst I can get 1000 pieces of data, 3000 is proving really tricky.) Is the Coll object limited to under 3000 pieces of data?

Data example:
1    5    ,
2    5    ,
3    4    ,
4    5    ,
5    5    ,
6    5    ,
7    4    ,
.....etc...
3000    13    ,

LSka's icon

Doesn't seem so.
I made a tiny test patch, and I've been able to store more than 100000 lines.

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.



How are you formatting your data into the coll?

Roman Thilenius's icon

20 years ago some of the messages (i think "insert" and "merge") stopped working at 999, but the line limit is at least 65,000, and today probably millions.

mizu's icon

the comma seems to be at a wrong place, should be something like
1, 5;
2, 1;
3, 3;
bzzz

Stace Constantinou's icon

Hello everyone - thank you so much for your responses. I discovered two things:
1) Message boxes (the method I used to input data into the coll) has a limit (I'm guessing around 1000). @ROMAN - maybe it's still limited, I could be wrong.
2) Coll object can go up to 3000 items (@MIZU-yes, my data was formatted wrong, but it did work for 1000, don't know why). Paste the data directly into Coll then save it with the patch, and should be fine.

@LSKA - your patch is awesome, a great help - thanks for this. I tried 100,000 and it was fine. So I tried 1,000000 and I broke Max (several times). Afterwards, Max was refusing to even recognise the Coll object for a while!!

Thanks again for all your support/ help. Really appreciated :)